Douglas Crockford

1955– · American computer programmer

Topics: programming, software engineering, web development, creativity

• Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

  — Douglas Crockford

• The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

  — Douglas Crockford

• JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. The very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. The bad ideas include a programming model based on global variables.

  — Douglas Crockford